The Heard-Depp trial is big news and it tell us a lot about the future of news. Personally, I did not follow it. But that clearly makes me something of an outlier. More than 18 million people watched it on TV news coverage in the United States. I am sure…

According to recent polls anywhere from 67% to 78% of Russians support the ‘special military action’ in Ukraine. This support is entirely a function of the ‘news’ that they see. For most Russians, according to The BBC, their main source of news and information is television, and television news in…

Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter is a truly open platform — a ‘town square’ where people can say whatever they like. This is the essence of a Free Press. Yet this vision sends a wave of terror through the journalism community. Journalists love to champion “Free Press,” that is, until…

As an American with homes in the United States and the UK, I have had the unique opportunity to experience first hand the governments of both nations. Trust me, the UK works better. It works better for a fairly simple reason — it is really a representative government. Members of…

In 1990, when I founded Video News International, an all VJ (or MMJ) global TV news company, the concept was unique. No producers, no camera people, no editors and no on air ‘talent’. Just a journalist with a video camera. My first investor in the new business was a man…

I am a regular viewer of news on The BBC. I think they have the best news programs (or should I say programmes) in the world. I like to start each day with BBC Breakfast and end each day (as least news-wise) with BBC News At 6. Yesterday, their top…

Above all else, we humans are creatures of habit. Once we have found a way to do something, it is very hard for us to change, even if the advent of a new technology makes the old way of working impractical, or sometimes even deadly. In 1914, when the First…

I was going to write a cute story about how shop class in Jr. High School made my lifelong career in TV possible. Let’s start with that, but it becomes, trust me, much more interesting and MUCH more upsetting. Shocking, actually. But maybe I was just naive. I went to…

What do Boris Johnson and Sir Captain Tom Moore have in common? Pretty much everything. Captain Tom Moore. A nice old man, a pensioner, is about to turn 100 years old. He is living with his daughter and son in law. Having nothing to do, his son-in-law suggests he try…